揭示一个动态的宇宙：Vera C. Rubin天文台的10年调查将发现数十亿个我们不知道存在的物体

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IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074456

Evan Ackerman

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夜幕降临到Cerro Pachón。当太阳落在地平线下时，散乱的云反射出最后几缕金色的光。我把相机对焦穿过山顶，对准这座山的最西端。在一片即将熄灭的红色和橙色的光芒中，隐约可见维拉·c·鲁宾天文台的狮身人面像。“还不错，”天文台的副项目经理、业余摄影师、低调大师威廉·奥穆兰说。我们看着天空逐渐从红色和紫色变成深沉的天鹅绒般的黑色。这是我在智利的第一个晚上。对于O'Mullane和其他数百名天文学家和工程师来说，这是多年工作的高潮，因为鲁宾天文台终于准备好“升空”了。

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Unveiling a Dynamic Universe: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-Year Survey will Discover Billions of Objects We Never Knew Existed

Night is falling on Cerro Pachón. ¶ Stray clouds reflect the last few rays of golden light as the sun dips below the horizon. I focus my camera across the summit to the westernmost peak of the mountain. Silhouetted within a dying blaze of red and orange light looms the sphinxlike shape of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. ¶ “Not bad,” says William O'Mullane, the observatory's deputy project manager, amateur photographer, and master of understatement. We watch as the sky fades through reds and purples to a deep, velvety black. It's my first night in Chile. For O'Mullane, and hundreds of other astronomers and engineers, it's the culmination of years of work, as the Rubin Observatory is finally ready to go”on sky.”

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

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254

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